Kimber Henry
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| Kimber Henry McNamara | |||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Kelly Carlson | ||||||||
| First appearance | Pilot (episode 1.01) | ||||||||
| Created by | Ryan Murphy | ||||||||
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| Gender | Female | ||||||||
| Age | 30 | ||||||||
| Occupation | Model/Actress/Porn Star | ||||||||
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Kimber McNamara (née Henry) is a fictional character in the American television series Nip/Tuck, portrayed by Kelly Carlson.
[edit] Character history
Kimber is a one-time model, pornographic actress, and pornography producer.
Her role on the earlier seasons of the show revolves largely around her on-and-off relationship with Christian Troy, one of the show's two protagonists. They first meet in the pilot episode. Kimber is not initially interested in Christian, but this changes when he reveals he is a plastic surgeon. After a wild sexual encounter, he tells Kimber how she can up herself "from an 8 to a 10" with plastic surgery. After the procedure, however, she feels Christian has dumped her aside, and lashes out by vandalizing his luxurious sports car and boat (though he does not know she is the culprit). Kimber has fallen madly in love with Christian, but his playboy instincts do not allow him to settle down in Season One, despite many attempts and a lot of work on Kimber's part.
A few months later, they reconnect when Christian realizes he is missing out on the best sex of his life, but he later wants to end things upon realizing she is not very bright. To do so, Christian makes a deal with Dr. Merrill Bobolit to push Kimber into Merill's arms as a "trade" for Merill's Lamborghini Diablo SV with the rare blue paint. It works until Merill confesses, and Kimber exacts her revenge by luring Christian to bed. There, she ties him up, threatens him with a knife, and leaves him, taking the keys to his new car. She later becomes engaged to Merrill until he loses his practice.
Kimber struggles to make a living by being an actress and develops a cocaine habit, which ruins her nasal septum. Christian repairs her septum for free, provided that she keep quiet at his custody deposition. She later becomes a hugely successful porn star, developing a widely successful sex doll modeled on her image. This leads to a brief fling with Christian's partner, Sean McNamara, and then she is back into Christian's arms.
In season three, Kimber engages in a 3-way relationship with Kit McGraw and Christian.[1] This ends after Kit invites Quentin Costa to join the group in bed, and Quentin makes a move on Christian. Kimber and Christian finally get engaged, but she disappears shortly before she is to walk down the aisle. A message is written on her mirror in the ante-chamber, which says, "I just can't." Christian assumes Kimber can't go through with the marriage, but she has in fact been kidnapped by The Carver, a serial rapist who is holding her at an undisclosed location. The Carver has forced her to write Christian a Dear John letter after cutting up her face.
Christian thinks Kimber is out of his life forever until he receives a grisly clue from The Carver — her breast implants. He calls Detective Kit McGraw in to help find Kimber and the Carver. Kit then tracks down Kimber, and reveals that the Carver has undone all of her 10 previous surgeries without anesthesia, in addition to inflicting his signature cheek slashes. Christian visits Kimber and sees the extent of her disfigurement, and he promises "to make her a 10 again." He redoes all of her previous surgeries simultaneously and even suggests rescheduling their wedding, but she resists. Christian believes Kimber is suffering from Stockholm syndrome, because she has sympathised with her captor; she believes the Carver's philosophy that beauty is "a curse on the world", and she blames Christian for what has happened to her.[2]
Kimber converts to Scientology, and attempts to convert Matt McNamara after giving him an E-meter test.[3] After converting him, she later convinces Matt to move out of his parents' house into what she believes is a better environment for him. However, she breaks their friendship off after he tries to have sex with her. Xenu visits her in a dream/hallucination. Later, Christian seduces her, only to tell her afterwards that he had sex with her because he needed to feel he "was the most important person in the world". Out of anger, Kimber then has sex with Matt.[4] In the next episode she and Matt go to a consult with Christian and Sean to announce that they are married and having a baby, which Christian thinks may be his. During a surgery to remove Kimber's implants so that she will be able to breast feed her baby, Christian takes DNA from her uterus and has it tested, only to find out that he is indeed not the father after all. Matt surprises Kimber in their house with cameras and people Kimber has worked with to make her early pornography movies. Matt convinces her to make a rough sex scene while 4 months pregnant. Although Matt tells her only he and she will see it, Kimber and Matt are informed at the doctor's office that their video is no longer private.[5]
Sean later gives both Matt and Kimber exactly $250,000.00, which he has gotten from selling the house and his share of the practice, for Matt's "Nest Egg". Matt and Sean then have a talk and Matt admits that Christian is probably right that Kimber only married him to get back at Christian in some sick, twisted way. Sean then tells Kimber how much Matt loves her, and she says that she is trying. They end up holding each other in bed.[6]
Henry only appears briefly in season 5. The Church of Scientology takes away their money and an ever image-struggling Kimber turns to meth to lose the extra weight she has gained from her pregnancy. She and Matt then use extortion, and consider doing porn, to feed that habit. She ultimately decides to sleep with her dealer for it.[7] She then decides to break up with Matt in exchange for a procedure from Christian to regain her old looks, and she gets back together with Ram Peters to go back into the porn industry.[8] She takes their child, Jenna, as well. She later appears with Eden Lord, who has also become a porn star and is involved in a three-way relationship with Ram and Kimber. Signs of friction between the ever insecure Kimber and Eden are evident.
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